Housewife Quotes - Page 6

• You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!

  Bela Karolyi

  Athlete, Gymnastics, People

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• I believe Andy was meant to die because he was too good I'm almost happy it ended the way it did because I've learned so many lessons from him. It would have been tragic if we got into fights and then divorced [If he had lived], I would be a fat housewife with three kids in Sands Point, Long Island.

  Rachel Uchitel

  Believe, Kids, Fighting

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• I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no idea what it meant. In another headline, I used the word INEFFABLE, only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself.

  David Ogilvy

  Ideas, Ineffable, Used

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• .. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive

  Les Paul

  Music, Guitar, Wonderful

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• But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don't understand history and the yearning of human souls ... woe in fact unto those who make evil movies about the Beat Generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks! ... woe unto those who spit on the Beat Generation, the wind'll blow it back.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, Thinking, Blow

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• My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.

  Kate Millett

  Sister, Nebraska, Said

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• I am a woman, I am a housewife, I am a government official, I've been twice a government secretary, I've been leader of a parliamentary group, I am an economist.

  Josefina Vazquez Mota

  Government, Leader, Groups

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• I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways.

  Isabella Beeton

  Dinner, Way, Source

  1861 The Book of Household Management, preface.

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• What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon men and women by household mismanagement. I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly-cooked dinners and untidy ways.

  Isabella Beeton

  Men, Suffering, Dinner

  1861 The Book of Household Management, preface.

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• My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.

  Paz Vega

  Ambition, Years, House

  "Viva La Vega". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2005.

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• Although the cooking of food presents some unsolved problems, the quick warming of cooked food and the thawing of frozen food both open up some attractive uses. ... There is no important reason why the the housewife of the future should not purchase completely frozen meals at the grocery store just as she buys quick frozen vegetables. With a quick heating, high-frequency unit in her kitchen, food preparation from a pre-cooked, frozen meal becomes a simple matter.

  Chauncey Guy Suits

  Science, Simple, Vegetables

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• Will you not covet such power as this, and seek such throne as this, and be no more housewives, but queens? There is no putting by that crown; queens you must always be; queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and sons; queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas! you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest.

  John Ruskin

  Queens, Husband, Son

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• I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids.

  Roma Downey

  Sister, Children, Kids

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• Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Queens, Glasses, Alcohol

  'The School for Scandal' (1777) act 3, sc. 3

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• I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time.

  Meg Tilly

  Dream, Book, Reading

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• I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Acting, Too Much

  Marilyn Monroe, Roger G. Taylor (1983). “Marilyn Monroe in her own words”, Putnam Pub Group

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• In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.

  Thomas Tusser

  Morning, Cutting, Night

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• This guitar is such a pal. It's a psychiatrist. It's a doggone bartender. It's a housewife. This guy is everything. Whenever I find that I've got a problem, I'll go pick my guitar up and play. It's the greatest pal in the whole world.

  Les Paul

  Music, Guitar, Play

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• We'll eradicate Twitter. I don't care what the international community says. Everyone will witness the power of the Turkish Republic. There is now a scourge that is called Twitter. The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society. They came to me with this case of Twitter ignoring case of smeared housewife. I said, let's solve this.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Lying, Media, Community

  "Feathers Fly As Top Turkish Officials Square Off Over Twitter Ban". "The Two-Way", www.npr.org. March 21, 2014.

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• I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

  Anne Frank

  Girl, Humorous, Adventure

  Anne Frank (1989). “The diary of a young girl”, Pocket

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• The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Would Be, Labels, Cadillacs

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• The first time I passed through the country (Switzerland) I had the impression it was swept down with a broom from one end to the other every morning by housewives who dumped all the dirt in Italy.

  Ernesto Sabato

  Funny, Country, Morning

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• The children themselves, before they get access to a car, are captives of their suburb, save for those families where the housewives surrender continuity in their own lives to chauffeur their children to lessons, doctors, and other services that could be reached via public transport in the city.

  David Riesman

  Children, Doctors, Cities

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.243, Transaction Publishers

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• Really living without clutter takes an iron will ... This involves eternal watchfulness and that oldest and most relentless of the housewife's occupations, picking up. I have a feeling that picking up will go on long after ways have been found to circumvent death and taxes.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Iron, Long, Feelings

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.439, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• How to Be an American Housewife is filled with dreams and love-the kinds that come true and those that don't. Margaret Dilloway is wise and ironic. She has created wonderful characters who never, in spite of hardships, stop finding ways to love each other.

  Luanne Rice

  Wise, Dream, Character

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